Show HN: Summle – A little maths Game

summle.net

26 points·kirchhoff··11 comments

I made the site a few years ago, but I've refined it and added some features over time. Hopefully it's worth another mention!

Fun game, reminds me of the numbers round of Countdown. I would love to be able to use keyboard shortcuts instead of having to click.

Neat! Reminds me of 8 out of 10 cats does countdown. Only note is it’d be nice if the prior “yellow” square would be auto-injected if you click an operator when there’s no number on the left cell.

And maybe if it had more “big” numbers, the expert mode is still pretty easy.

> Reminds me of 8 out of 10 cats does countdown.

... "8 out of 10 cats" is a comedy troupe. Countdown is the name of the game, and in particular the Numbers Round: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countdown_(game_show)#Numbers_...

Yep, the show is called “8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown”!

The ones you see on Youtube are the special episodes where the comedy troupe plays Countdown.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_Out_of_10_Cats_Does_Countd...

Listen, this is like seeing a quiz game and saying it's like Celebrity Jeopardy[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity_Jeopardy!_(Saturday_...

Fun little game. How does the engine know that a solution is optimal?

I wrote a script which generates all possible solutions for a given puzzle.

Love this, I’m adding it to my daily rotation.

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